(Hebei folk songs)

The Chinese cabbage in the field is yellow.

Three or two years old, no mother.

Have a good life with dad

I'm afraid my father will marry his stepmother.

Married for three and a half years.

I have a younger brother who is better than me.

Brother eats noodles and I drink soup.

Pick up the bowl and cry.

Mom, mom, mom.

Mom misses me. Who knows?

I miss my mother in my dream.

Peach blossoms bloom and apricot blossoms fall.

Think of your mother, a gust of wind

Mom, mom, mom.

Chinese Cabbage is a ballad, which belongs to a small genre of Hebei folk songs.

The first paragraph of the song is the embryonic form of the whole song, which is composed of continuous falling tones, and the rhythm is short first and then long, which is closer to crying. The second section develops from the previous one-word tone to one-word tone, highlighting the euphemistic and sad tone. The second section is based on the free mode of the first section. The third and fourth parts are also developed from the continuous downward free module of the first part. The melody goes down gradually, one sentence is deeper and one sentence is darker. The sad mood deepened gradually, and the tragic atmosphere became stronger and stronger, especially the last two sentences, which played an expanding role in music, like a child's urgent but hopeless call to his mother. Originally, the first call was already very low, and the melody was repeated in the later paragraph. After the 6(la) in the first beat, a four-tone 2(re) was added, which made the call even more miserable. At the same time, it further exaggerates the feelings of yearning and loneliness. It strengthens the sad feelings of the song and has a strong artistic appeal.

This song is a segmented song with six lyrics. The music structure is a segment, China's pentatonic mode. The whole song has only twelve bars. Through simple and vivid lyrics, the tone of crying in the rising and falling stages, and the melody development technique of downward rotation, the sadness and pain of a girl who lost her mother, was abused and lonely were deeply expressed.